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The test is run against the register read whole, and its result for this ground is stated first and plainly: among the sixty-four exempt organizations under the Walkerton post office there is no NAACP line, no League of Women Voters line and no Urban League line. No chapter, branch, unit or auxiliary of any of the three national civic leagues holds a federal ruling, an address or a dollar on the Walkerton ground. That is the whole of the result for the town itself, and it is printed at test size rather than inflated.
The county organizations stand in South Bend, at boundary size. The NAACP's South Bend branch was founded in 1919, in the orbit of the city's Black churches — the landmark record places its founding at the Mount Zion Baptist Church site, the present Pilgrim Baptist Church at 116 North Birdsell Street, with early meetings also hosted at Olivet AME Church. The League of Women Voters of the South Bend Area descends from the national League founded at Chicago on February 14, 1920; its own local history records a documented century with one silence in it — no known presidents or activities for 1966–69 — and a formal restart on December 15, 1969, with Greta Betchov as acting president, the unit rebuilding from Member-at-Large status to a provisional and then full League. The Urban League's South Bend presence ran through Hering House: the community centre established in 1924–25 when Frank and Claribel Hering bought a church building on Division Street (now Western Avenue) and dedicated it in 1925 for the city's African American community — under a founding trust that kept its board mostly white, only two of seven directors being persons of colour, a barrier that stood until 1951. The Hering House allied with the South Bend Urban League beginning in 1956, and joint reports under the combined "South Bend Urban League and Hering House" name run from 1960 until the Hering House board voted to close in 1963. Two careful distinctions close the item. The 1951 date evidenced in the record reached is that Hering House governance change — the year the colour barrier in its trust language fell; and the 1951 federal ruling verifiable in the federal mirror for this family of South Bend civic leagues belongs to the Junior League of South Bend, whose exemption was ruled in August 1951. No Urban League federal ruling of 1951 was verified in the sources reached, and none is printed; if such a ruling exists, it settles in the Urban League's own corporate record. For Walkerton the three leagues' absence, and for South Bend their presence at the sizes above, is the test's whole yield.
Sources: the exempt-organizations register read whole for this ground (no line for any of the three leagues); Indiana Landmarks and Civil Rights Heritage Center landmark record (NAACP South Bend branch, 1919; Pilgrim Baptist Church, 116 North Birdsell Street; Olivet AME); League of Women Voters of the South Bend Area, local history, lwvsouthbend.org; IUSB Civil Rights Heritage Center finding aid for the Hering House / South Bend Urban League records (Hering House 1924–25, board language until 1951, affiliation 1956, joint reports from 1960, closure 1963); federal exempt-organizations mirror (Junior League of South Bend Inc., ruling August 1951); South Bend Common Council minutes, January 22, 1962 (the joint organization writing as "The South Bend Urban League and Hering House, Inc.").